Petrol U-turn fuels Ed's victory as panic at the pumps returns

RED Ed has never looked so happy.

After the political gift of the omnishambles Budget, surely, the comrades thought, the Tory toffs could not be generous enough to come up with yet another neatly packaged U-turn, could they? Cue scrapping the fuel tax hike just hours after Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls had demanded it.

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